It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon --so long as there is no answer to it-- gives claws to the weak.
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Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.
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Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
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Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
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Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.
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Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned
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Poor neighborhoods all look the same: run-down, graffiti covered, garbage strewn, crime-riddled etc. Affluent ones all look the same as well: clean, crime-free, big homes, expensive cars, manicured lawns. Why the hell then doesn't everyone vote like an affluent!
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.
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the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,...
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[Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination.
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1 Timothy 2:9:
I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
(NIV)
Also [I desire] that women should adorn themselves modestly and appropriately and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with [elaborate] hair arrangement or gold or pearls or expensive clothing,
(AMP)
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
(KJV)
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We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.
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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
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God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.
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When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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We just don't know where technology is going to go. We felt we needed to get a placeholder in there for whatever. If you don't get the land now, it's going to be much more expensive to get in the future.
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Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining
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Mark 14:3:
While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
(NIV)
And while He was in Bethany, [a guest] in the house of Simon the leper, as He was reclining [at table], a woman came with an alabaster jar of ointment (perfume) of pure nard, very costly and precious; and she broke the jar and poured [the perfume] over His head.
(AMP)
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
(KJV)
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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It's difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.
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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
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